Eco-friendly Products Presentation

Two days last week I had the pleasure of traveling with our Coach Benevole, Ndate Dieng, as she gave her presentation of the SEM fund products.

This stove uses a sustainable biomass that is actually grown locally in Senegal. The SEM fund planted 27,000 of the trees themselves with a local field partner. Small pieces of the wood are put in a small chamber in the bottom of the stove. This is a safer stove than the charcoal stoves that are popularly used in Senegal because it emits fewer indoor air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and particulates.

Ndate holding the stove during her presentation.

This is the EcoSac, which is actually manufactured locally by another Zidisha member! If you partially cook a meal, you can take the pot off the stove and put it in the EcoSac, which will finish cooking it for you. This can also be used as temporary refrigeration.

 

This was one of the group of participants in one of the presentations that Ndate gave. At the second presentation, she successfully sold a stove and one of the solar powered lamps. I only look forward to continuing to follow Ndate's success!